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Technique: Fired
Table Box Enamel on Guilloche Hand Painted Miniature Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Square box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guillochè also on the sides. In the center, a beautiful hand painted tempera miniature on a vegetable ivory plate depicting the portrait of a 19th century lady, signed by the painter Anna Maria Manfriani. Dimensions cm. 12 x 12 x 2.5. Weight gr. 618. Designed by Franco Salimbeni in 1976 and manufactured in Florence in some specimens with various subjects and different colors, in the headquarters of the Salimbeni Company with completely manual execution by artisan artists with thick slab and large reinforcements suitable for withstanding numerous enamelled firings at about 800° C.
Miniature is a very ancient technique which consists of painting works in small proportions.
It was born for the decoration of the first letter of the paragraph of the books.
Over the years, however, this technique is refined and enriched, then moving on to precious personal items.
Hand painted miniatures can be done with multiple different techniques.
The most important that we use on our articles are of three kinds:
1) Fire enamel.
2) Water tempera on an ivory plate.
3) Painted on mother-of-pearl.
Fire enameled miniatures:
On a first layer of enamel generally white or very clear or even transparent suitably liquefied at a temperature of about 750 ° C, the chosen subject is painted using miniature colors which are as many colored crystals, ground and reduced to a very fine, almost impalpable powder washed and purified in distilled water with the addition of small quantities of deoxidizing acids which, diluted with essential oils (usually essential oil of solder), can be mixed to form a palette of colors.
With very fine sable hair brushes you draw the subject starting from the perimeter and then gradually adding various layers of color.
It is necessary to carry out various firings very often so that the colors harden and are not absorbed by the underlying glaze as, during the subsequent firings at 750 ° C, during liquefaction, it would spread irremediably. Hence the need to form the painting a little at a time, cooking it numerous times.
Therefore it is necessary to proceed with numerous retouching, often overlapping different colors that only the painter's experience knows. A beautiful miniature needs from 20 to over 50 firings and is finished when the painter deems he does not have to further intervene.
Some colors must have darker tones than others because then, by superimposing the transparent enamel placed at the end of the miniature, they fade. This transparent layer, called “fondant” in jargon, must be smoothed and polished like all other translucent enamel colors.
The miniatures with water tempera colors are painted on real ivory...
Category
1970s Italian Modern Vintage Fired Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Table Box Heart shape Sky tone fire-enameled on guilloche Salimbeni.
Located in Firenze, FI
Heart-shaped table box in 925/1000 sterling silver with translucent fired enamel on guilloché above and below. Modern contemporary style. Dimensions cm. 8 x 8.8 high cm. 2.8. Weight ...
Category
1990s Italian Modern Fired Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Table Cigarette Box hand painted in tempera on a vegetable ivory Salimbeni.
Located in Firenze, FI
Square table box for cigarettes in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guilloché also on the sides. In the center beautiful miniature hand painted i...
Category
1970s Italian Napoleon III Vintage Fired Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Photo Frame Heart-Shaped Fired Enamel on Guillochè Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Heart-shaped rounded frame with oval photo in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guillochè. With hinged silver-gilt foot engraved in Empire style. ...
Category
1970s Italian Empire Vintage Fired Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Photo Frame Red Enamel Guillochè and Hand Engravings Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Shaped oval photo frame in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on sunburst guillochè and Louis XVI French Empire style ornaments. External dimensions c...
Category
1970s Italian Louis XVI Vintage Fired Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Small shaped Picture Frame tiles of the Baptistery of Florence Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Frame in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamels on guillochè. Shaping taken from the tiles of the North Door of the Baptistery of the Florence Cathedral ...
Category
1970s Italian Renaissance Vintage Fired Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel, Gold Plate
Photo Frame Triptych hinged shaped frame for 3 photographs Blue Enamel Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Triptych hinged shaped frame for 3 photographs in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guillochè with borders and ornaments in French Louis XVI Empi...
Category
1980s Italian Louis XVI Vintage Fired Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Salimbeni Box with Swiss Musical Mechanism by Maison Reuge Art Deco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Round box with Swiss musical mechanism (music box) by Maison Reuge. In 925/1000 sterling silver with black and white fired enamels in Art Deco style. Diameter cm. 7.4 total height cm...
Category
1970s Italian Art Deco Vintage Fired Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Photo Frame with Interlacements in French Empire Louis XVI Style Sterling Silver
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular photo frame in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guillochè and with convex border with enamelled lines, on which are applied interlace...
Category
1980s Italian Empire Vintage Fired Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Table Box Heart shape Red passion fire-enameled on guilloche Salimbeni.
Located in Firenze, FI
Heart-shaped table box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold-plated with translucent fired enamel on guilloché above and below. Modern contemporary style. Dimensions cm. 8.8 x 8 cm high....
Category
1990s Italian Modern Fired Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Picture Frame 3 oval photos French Empire Napoleon III style Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular table frame for 3 oval photos cm. 3.2 x 4.2 each in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guilloche, with French Empire Napoleon III style...
Category
1970s Italian Napoleon III Vintage Fired Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Small shaped Picture Frame 2 oval portrait Plum Purple color enamel Salimbeni
By Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Small shaped frame for 2 oval photographs in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guilloche in Art Nouveau style. External dimensions cm. 5.2 x 7 int...
Category
1980s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Fired Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Box Black Red and White Art Deco style designed for Cartier USA Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Box Black White and Red enamel is Inspired by drawings by Louis Cartier from the 1920 in Art Deco style and recreated for Cartier USA in the 1976.
It is in 925/1000 Sterling Silver.
...
Category
1970s Italian Art Deco Vintage Fired Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Picture Frame with enamel on a sunburst guilloché Salimbeni.
Located in Firenze, FI
Embrace a timeless treasure that echoes grandeur: an exquisite oval-shaped photo frame, sculpted from 925/1000 gold-plated sterling silver. Its translucent enamel adorns a sunburst g...
Category
1970s Italian Empire Vintage Fired Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Table Cigar Box two-tone stripes enamel Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
This divine Table Box is in 925/1000 sterling silver.
Table Box hand-painted miniature has a Rectangular shape with rounded corners.
On the cover there is a beautiful hand-engraved...
Category
1970s Italian Empire Vintage Fired Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Table Box for Cigarettes in Sterling Silver Sterling Enamel Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular table box for cigarettes in sterling silver 925/1000 gold plated with hand-engraved design in Baroque style with two-tone fired enamels. Measure cm. 6.5 x 10.2 x 2. Weigh...
Category
1970s Italian Baroque Vintage Fired Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel, Gold Plate
Table Box transparent brown fired enamel over hand-engraved wood grain Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular table box in gold-plated 925/1000 sterling silver with fine hand-engraved ornaments in late Napoleon III Empire style and transparent brown fired enamel over hand-engrave...
Category
1970s Italian Napoleon III Vintage Fired Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Photo Frame Black and White Enamel Squared Shape Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Square photo frame in 925/1000 sterling silver with fire-enamelled Art Deco-style geometric design. External dimensions cm. 14.5 x 14.5 internal cm. 9 x 9. Weight gr. 260. Designed b...
Category
1970s Italian Art Deco Vintage Fired Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Salimbeni Pocket Photos Holder in Sterling Silver 2 Photographs
Located in Firenze, FI
Salimbeni Pocket photos holder in sterling silver 925/1000 gold plated with two-tone translucent fired enamels on guillochè, with hand-engraved edge. Empire style Napoleon III. Octag...
Category
1980s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Fired Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Salimbeni Pillbox Shaped with Hand-Painted Miniature in Louis XVI Style
Located in Firenze, FI
A captivating piece of Florentine craftsmanship, this shaped pillbox is crafted from gilded 925/1000 silver. It features a meticulously hand-painted miniature in the refined Louis XV...
Category
1970s Italian Louis XVI Vintage Fired Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Picture Frame Enamel two-tone ruby red and emerald green Salimbeni.
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular photo frame in gold-plated 925/1000 sterling silver, with translucent fired enamel stripes on guilloche, two-tone ruby red and emerald green, in a modern contemporary sty...
Category
Early 2000s Italian Modern Fired Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Cigarette Case Romantic couple Art Nouveau Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular desk cigarette case with rounded corners in sterling silver 925/1000 gold plated with fine hand-painted fire-enameled miniature depicting a romantic couple in Art Nouveau...
Category
1970s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Fired Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Table Box hand-engraved wood grain with Coral Salimbeni.
Located in Firenze, FI
Table Box wood style and Coral is in 925/1000 sterling silver.
Table Box wood style and Coral has transparent brown fired enamel over hand-engraved wood grain.
Table Box wood style a...
Category
1970s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Fired Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Photo Frame White Enamel and Hand Painted Flower Garlands Sterling Silver Salimb
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular photo frame in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with hand-painted floral miniature by the painter Renato Dainelli, fire-enamelled on a white background in Art Nouveau...
Category
1980s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Fired Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Picture Frame with two-tone enamel stripes on guilloché Salimbeni.
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular frame in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with two-tone enamel stripes on guilloché and fine hand engravings French Empire style. With 2 oval photo holders, internal ...
Category
1970s Italian Empire Vintage Fired Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Photo Frame Two-Tone Fired Enamel on Guillochè Louis XVI Style Sterling Silver S
Located in Firenze, FI
Large shaped photo frame in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent two-tone fired enamel on guillochè and with various ornaments in Louis XVI French Empire style and 4...
Category
1980s Italian Louis XVI Vintage Fired Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Photo Frame Double Opening Fired Enamel on Guillochè Sterling Silver Saliimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Shaped double opening photo frame in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guillochè. Early 1900s English Art Nouveau style. Open size cm. 13.5 cm hig...
Category
1980s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Fired Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Photograph Frame Large Imperial Style White Enamel on Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Large gold-plated 925/1000 sterling silver shaped photograph frame with translucent fired enamel on guillochè and rich friezes in Louis XVI French Empire style. External measurements...
Category
1960s Italian Empire Vintage Fired Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Photo Frame Fired Enamel with Two-Tone Stripes on Guillochè and Hand Engravings
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular frame with oval photo in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel with two-tone stripes on guillochè and hand engravings. External dimensions cm...
Category
1980s Italian Napoleon III Vintage Fired Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Photo Frame Large two-tone striped enamel Black and Yellow Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular photo frame in gold plated 925/1000 sterling silver with translucent fired enamels on two-tone striped guillochè. In a contemporary style. Ground glass and velvet panel. ...
Category
1970s Italian Modern Vintage Fired Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Photo Frame Bordeaux Enamel Empire style ornaments Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Shaped oval photo frame in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guillochè and Louis XVI French Empire style ornaments. External dimensions cm. 13.5 x...
Category
1970s Italian Louis XVI Vintage Fired Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Table Box autumn colours, Art Nouveau style Sterling Silver, Enamel and Coral Sa
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular table box with rounded corners in 925/1000 sterling silver brossè with very fine hand engraving, also on the sides, of “ramage” with leaves and bunches of grapes fire-ena...
Category
1960s Italian Art Deco Vintage Fired Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Table Box Sterling Silver Paillons in Pure Gold and Miniature Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Oval table box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with fired enamel, with “paillons” in pure gold on the upper circle, fine miniature fired enamelled with an image of “fox hunti...
Category
1960s Italian Napoleon III Vintage Fired Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Square Table Frame White and Blue Sterling Silver Enamel Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Square table frame for round photos diameter cm. 7, in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent two-tone fired enamels on guillochè, with bord...
Category
1970s Italian Napoleon III Vintage Fired Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Box with fired enamels and fine horse racing miniature Salimbeni.
Located in Firenze, FI
Large shaped table box in sterling silver 925/1000 gold plated with translucent fired enamels on guilloche and large fire enamelled rectangular miniature hand painted by the painter ...
Category
1970s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Fired Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Box engraving on the lid and hand-painted floral miniature Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Shaped table box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with fine fire-enameled engraving on the lid and hand-painted floral miniature in 18th century French Empire style. Dimension...
Category
1970s Italian Empire Vintage Fired Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Photo Frame Oval with Two-color Translucent strips Enamel Fired Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Oval frame in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with two-color translucent strips fire-enameled on guillochè and hand-engraving and with French Empire Napoleon III style ornament...
Category
1980s Italian Napoleon III Vintage Fired Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Table Box floral miniature fire-enameled on guilloche and stripes Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Oval table box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with fired enamel, with fine floral miniature fire-enamelled on guilloche, enamelled edge with vertical stripes. Viennese Art N...
Category
1960s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Fired Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel, Gold Plate
Table Box Enamel two-tone ruby red and emerald green Salimbeni.
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular table box in 925/1000 gold-plated sterling silver with translucent fired enamel stripes on guilloche, two-tone ruby red and emerald green, in a modern contemporary style....
Category
Early 2000s Italian Modern Fired Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel, Gold
Table Box Fired Enamel on Guillochè Arab-Style Ornament Sterling Silver Salimben
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular box with rounded corners in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guillochè with hand-engraved and enamelled Arab-style ornament. Dimensio...
Category
1990s Italian Modern Fired Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Picture Frame Black high relief engraving grape leaves Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Picture Frame Black high relief is in 925/1000 sterling silver .
Picture Frame Black high relief has black fired enamels.
Picture Frame Black high relief has fine high relief engravi...
Category
1980s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Fired Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Box Black and White Art Deco style designed for Cartier USA Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Box Black and White enamel is Inspired by drawings by Louis Cartier from the early 1920s in Art Deco style and recreated for Cartier USA in 1976.
It is in 925/1000 sterling.
Box Blac...
Category
1970s Italian Art Deco Vintage Fired Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Picture Frame Green two-tones enamel Guilloche Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
This important Picture Frame Green is in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated 24 carats. It is rectangular shaped photo frame.
The surface of this Picture Frame Green is fired enamel...
Category
1970s Italian Napoleon III Vintage Fired Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel, Gold
Photo Frame Large Imperial Style White and Green enamel on Sterling Silver Salim
Located in Firenze, FI
Large shaped frame for photographs in gold plated 925/1000 sterling silver with translucent two-tone fired enamels on guillochè and rich friezes in the French Empire Louis XVI style ...
Category
1960s Italian Empire Vintage Fired Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Black Box Octagonal with black edge enamel with pure Gold Paillons Salimbeni.
Located in Firenze, FI
Table Box Octagonal is in 925/1000 sterling silver.
Table Box Octagonal
Table Box Octagonal has translucent fired enamels on guilloché.
Table Box Octagonal has black edge with pure g...
Category
1980s Italian Art Deco Vintage Fired Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel, Gold
Picture Frame Louis XVI Green and sky blue, French Empire style Sterling Silver
Located in Firenze, FI
This stunning Picture Frame is in 925/1000 sterling silver.
Picture Frame Louis XVI has a squared shape with green and sky blue color for the fire enameled surface on guilloche and h...
Category
1980s Italian Louis XVI Vintage Fired Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Frame for Oval Photo Borders in Louis XVI French Empire Style Enamel Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular table frame for oval photo in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent two-tone fired enamels on guillochè and with various ornamen...
Category
1980s Italian Louis XVI Vintage Fired Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Box with green enamel on fine hand engraving of a landscape with ruins Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular table box with concave corners in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on fine hand engraving of a landscape with ruins. Contemporary modern...
Category
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Fired Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel, Gold Plate
Box with wedges Enamel Sterling Silver black and white Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Octagonal wedge box in 925/1000 sterling silver with black and white colors fire enameled in Art Deco style. Measures 7.8 x 7.8 x 6 cm. Weight gr. 281. Designed by Giorgio Salimbeni ...
Category
1970s Italian Art Deco Vintage Fired Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Black Oval Photo Frame Baroque Style Sterling Silver Enamel Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Oval photograph frame, shaped edge in sterling silver 925/1000 gold plated with fine hand engraving, interspersed with black fired enamel in Baroque style. External cm. 7.4 x 11.3. W...
Category
1980s Italian Baroque Vintage Fired Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel, Gold Plate
Snuff box Enamel Stripes and miniature Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Shaped snuff box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with fire-enameled stripes and fine oval enameled miniature in center cm. 3 x 4 hand-painted by ...
Category
1970s Italian Napoleon III Vintage Fired Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Red Photo Frame French Empire Louis XVI style Sterling Silver Enamel Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular photo frame in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guillochè, with French Empire Louis XVI style border and rich ornamentation around th...
Category
1980s Italian Empire Vintage Fired Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Table Box for Cigarettes Art Deco style designed for Cartier USA Sterling Silver
Located in Firenze, FI
Square table box for cigarettes with rounded corners in 925/1000 sterling silver with black fired enamel. Measure cm. 12.7 x 12.7 x 3.2. Weight gr. 640. Created in the Art Deco style...
Category
1980s Italian Art Deco Vintage Fired Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Plate Enamel on guillochè in Art Nouveau style Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Plate in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guillochè in Art Nouveau style. Diameter cm. 17.2 high cm. 2.8. Weight gr. 347. Designed by Giorgio Sal...
Category
1970s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Fired Sterling Silver
Materials
Malachite, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Heart table box Yellow enamel Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Heart-shaped table box in 925/1000 sterling silver with translucent enamel fired on guilloche above and below. Contemporary modern style. Dimensions cm. 9 x 9.5 cm high. 3.Weight gr....
Category
1990s Italian Modern Fired Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Baroque Style Green Table Box with Miniature Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Baroque style shaped table box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with fine hand engraving interspersed with spaces with translucent fired enamels on guillochè and a beautiful h...
Category
1960s Italian Baroque Vintage Fired Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Picture Frame Napoleon III French Empire style laurel ornament Sterling Silver.
Located in Firenze, FI
This exquisite Picture Frame Napoleon III is in 925/1000 sterling silver.
it has a Squared Shape and sky colour for the fire enameled surface on guilloche.
Picture Frame Napoleon III...
Category
1980s Italian Napoleon III Vintage Fired Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Table Box Enamel on Guilloche and Hand Painted Miniature Sterling Silver Salimb
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular box with inward corners in sterling silver 925/1000 gold plated with beautiful miniature fire enameled and hand painted by the painter Beatrice Mellana depicting the painting "The Turkish slave" by Francesco Mazzola known as "il Parmigianino" (National Gallery of Parma). Dimensions cm. 8.5 x 11.5 x 3. Weight gr. 345. Designed by Franco Salimbeni in 1965 and manufactured in Florence in numerous specimens with various different subjects, in the headquarters of the Salimbeni company with completely manual execution by artisan artists with thick slab and large reinforcements suitable for withstanding numerous high-fire enameled firings at about 800° C.
Miniature is a very ancient technique which consists of painting works in small proportions.
It was born for the decoration of the first letter of the paragraph of the books.
Over the years, however, this technique is refined and enriched, then moving on to precious personal items.
Hand-painted miniatures can be done with multiple different techniques.
The most important that we use on our articles are of three kinds:
1) Fire enamel.
2) Water tempera on an ivory plate.
3) Painted on mother-of-pearl.
Fire enameled miniatures:
On a first layer of enamel generally white or very clear or even transparent suitably liquefied at a temperature of about 750 ° C, the chosen subject is painted using miniature colors which are as many colored crystals, ground and reduced to a very fine, almost impalpable powder washed and purified in distilled water with the addition of small quantities of deoxidizing acids which, diluted with essential oils (usually essential oil of solder), can be mixed to form a palette of colors.
With very fine sable hair brushes you draw the subject starting from the perimeter and then gradually adding various layers of color.
It is necessary to carry out various firings very often so that the colors harden and are not absorbed by the underlying glaze as, during the subsequent firings at 750 ° C, during liquefaction, it would spread irremediably. Hence the need to form the painting a little at a time, cooking it numerous times.
Therefore it is necessary to proceed with numerous retouching, often overlapping different colors that only the painter's experience knows. A beautiful miniature needs from 20 to over 50 firings and is finished when the painter deems he does not have to further intervene.
Some colors must have darker tones than others because then, by superimposing the transparent enamel placed at the end of the miniature, they fade. This transparent layer, called “fondant” in jargon, must be smoothed and polished like all other translucent enamel colors.
The miniatures with water tempera colors are painted on real ivory...
Category
1960s Italian Baroque Vintage Fired Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Table Box Octagonal Black Enamel with light Blue Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Octagonal table box in 925/1000 sterling silver with fire-enamelled Art Deco design. Dimensions diameter cm. 15.8 high cm . 8.2. Weight gr. 974. Designed by Giorgio Salimbeni for Cartier USA in the 1980s, inspired by objects designed by Louis Cartier around 1920 and manufactured in Florence in various specimens, also in parure with other objects and in different colors, in the headquarters by the Salimbeni firm with completely manual execution by artisan artists with thick slab and large reinforcements suitable for withstanding numerous high-fire enamelled firings at about 750°<800° C.
About cooperation Salimbeni and Cartier.
Our first meetings with the Cartier USA Company took place through the Giorgini Company, the first "Buying Office" set up in Florence immediately after the Second World War, which had the purpose of bringing together Florentine, and also Italian, producers with American buyers, who especially appreciated the artistic objects still manufactured by artisans who still took inspiration from the Italian Renaissance, using techniques handed down from generation to generation.
Mrs. Gina Pestelli, wife of a Florentine retail jeweller, was in charge of contacts with Cartier USA, above all an employee, while her daughter, also for Giorgini, took care of the fashion that in those years was affirmed in Florence with the events of "Pitti ".
With their help, we began to supply frames and boxes in sterling silver gold plated with malachite and other semi-precious stones.
At the same time, the official buyer of Cartier, Mr. William Smith, began to appreciate and commission the first objects with fired enamels, a process of which we have always been specialists.
In 1975 we began exhibiting at the prestigious New York Jewellery Association Show, which we participated in both the February and July editions, for a good 26 years until 2001.
In New York in those years the "Art deco style" was still very much appreciated, still mindful of the beautiful early 20th century architecture of the great buildings such as the "Crysler" or the "Empire State".
We then began to produce frames, boxes, evening bags, "objets de vertu" and other objects in "art deco style" which were very popular with Mr. Smith who gave us some photocopies of Louis Francois Cartier drawings to reproduce them. Thus, numerous cigarette cases, powder compacts, evening bags, frames and table boxes were created exclusively for Cartier USA which, at the time, had the prestigious "Silver Department" on the first floor of the Cartier store on Fifth Avenue.
An evening bag, with matching cigarette case and powder compact, were redone on the design created for a gift given to Mary Pickford at the time. In a 1986 Cartier...
Category
1980s Italian Art Deco Vintage Fired Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Picture Frame large size Red Enamel on Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Large shaped photograph frame in gold plated 925/1000 sterling silver with translucent fired enamel on guillochè with borders and laurel frieze in Louis XVI French Empire style. Exte...
Category
1960s Italian Empire Vintage Fired Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
